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Edwin Keatley Whittington
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Rank
Captain, U.S. Air Force
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Date of Death
April 8, 1951
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Captain Whittington was the pilot of a C-47D Skytrain transport with the 123rd Maintenance Squadron, 123rd Fighter Bomber Wing stationed at Godman Air Force Base, Kentucky. On April 8, 1951, the aircraft was enroute from Godman to Kanawha County Airport, Charleston, West Virginia when it crashed about eight miles northeast of Kanawha Airport, killing all twenty one Air Force personnel aboard. |
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